Graham Upton MA Med PhD CPsychol FRSA AcSS, Chairman

James Bernard BA, Chief Executive Officer

James is a commercially driven and results orientated business leader and strategist who offers over 22 years executive level experience within the research / life science industry. He was an integral part of the start up and ongoing executive management of the Serotec group of companies, managing the end to end process over a 22 year history from start up through to its eventual sale for £20m. For those years he had P&L accountability for a €22million turnover operation and expanded the business through setting up sister companies across Europe and North America. Through this experience, he has amassed a detailed understanding of the political, regulatory and competitor landscapes and has utilised this information to design and deliver effective commercial strategies.

Edward Bernard, Non Executive Director

In Edward’s early years he worked for the Agricultural Research Council Babraham, Cambridge; The Postgraduate Medical School, London; The M.R.C. Holly Hill Hampstead, London and The Nuffield Institute for Medical Research Oxford. In the early 60's he established his first businesses, which were successfully sold for £1m. In 1976 he founded Serotec Ltd, which was sold in 2006 for £20m. During his time at Serotec, he established a joint venture with Oxford Brookes University, the technology and patent protection being provided by the university and the sales and marketing provided by Serotec. Several spin-off companies were established during the Serotec time and were all successfully sold. Edward does a lot of charity fund raising work for the likes John Radcliffe Children's Hospital, John Radcliffe New Cancer Unit, St Luke's Hospice Plymouth, Devon and The Urology Unit, Churchill Hospital. Most importantly, he also played Centre Forward for Cambridge United 1953/4!

Prof Linda King BSc DPhil, Director and Chair of SAB

Professor Linda King is Professor of Virology and Dean of the School of Life Sciences, Oxford Brookes University. Following the completion of her doctorate in molecular virology at Oxford University in 1985, Linda's research has focused on various aspects of insect virology with particular emphasis on baculovirus expression systems. She has published more than 90 papers in peer-reviewed journals, reviews and book chapters, and until recently was Insect Virus Editor for The Journal of General Virology. She has spoken at numerous national and international meetings, including The American Society for Virology, The Society for Invertebrate Pathology, Peptalk, Global Protein Summit & Baculovirus Technology. Linda played an integral role in the establishment of Oxford Expression Technologies (OET), trading under Oxford Brookes Enterprises Ltd, in 1997. Linda is married to Prof Possee.

Prof Alistair Fitt, Non Executive Director

Professor Alistair Fitt is Pro Vice-Chancellor at Oxford Brookes Unviersity, having a remit that covers all research and knowledge transfer at the University. Alistair joined Brookes in March 2011 from the University of Southampton where he worked for 22 years, latterly as the Head of the School of Mathematics and then Pro Vice-Chancellor, International.

He studied at Lincoln College, Oxford, and specialises in industrial applied mathematics research. He has published three books and more than 80 research papers and has spent many years attending study groups with industry all over the world, where real unsolved industrial problems are studied by groups of mathematicians. He joined the board at OET in 2012.